Lost in Yonkers

About “Lost in Yonkers”

Lost in Yonkers is a play by Neil Simon, an insightful drama about one woman's drive and its emotional toll on her family. Grandma Kurnitz, who endured a harsh German childhood and was widowed young with six children in a foreign country, becomes strong, hard, and cold, and tries to instill this in her remaining four children; her two teenage grandsons, left in her care, learn the importance of loving and being loved and the difference between living and surviving.